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Choice : true stories of birth, contraception, infertility, adoption, single parenthood, & abortion / edited by Karen E. Bender & Nina de Gramont.
Van Pelt Library PS509.W6 C487 2007
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Literary collections.
- Women.
- American literature--Women authors.
- American literature.
- American literature--21st century.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 349 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : MacAdam Cage, [2007]
- Summary:
- "What if we could glance through the curtains to see our neighbors? What if we could not just see their actions, but hear their thoughts and know their histories?" With these questions in mind, this moving collection of twenty-four personal essays-from both emerging talents and established authors-illuminates the complexity of women's reproductive decisions.
- In addressing a wide range of choices-from giving up a child for adoption to adopting a child, from having an abortion to bringing a pregnancy to full term, from using birth control or battling infertility to choosing not to have children at all-these brave women invite us into their lives, emotions, and physical struggles with searing honesty, grace, and humor. Together, these collected voices offer a look at the real, human stories behind the reproductive rights debate, and allow us to truly understand the meaning of the word "choice"-regardless of which side of the debate we stand on.
- Contents:
- The Ballad of Bobbie Jo / Jacquelyn Mitchard 17
- It Could Happen to You / Sandy Hingston 29
- If / Susan Ito 39
- Bearing Sorrow: A Birthmother's Reflections on Choice / Janet Mason Ellerby 53
- Thirty-four Years Old Today / Pam Houston 69
- Personal Belongings / Kimi Faxon Hemingway 77
- Termination / Deborah McDowell 95
- Conceiving is Not Always the Same as Having an Idea / Catherine Newman 105
- Harrison: Battling for the Chance to Make a Choice / Harriette E. Wimms 111
- Mother's Day in the Year of the Rooster / Ann Hood 127
- Donation / Ashley Talley 137
- Summer, 1959 / Carolyn Ferrell 155
- A Normal Woman / Kate Maloy 173
- The Decision / Katie Allison Granju 187
- No Stone Unturned / K.A.C. 193
- The Stories We Tell / Katherine Towler 207
- A Complicated Privilege / Elizabeth Larsen 221
- Woman of Heart and Mind / Denise Gess 237
- Matters of the Heart: To Be a Dragon Slayer / Velina Hasu Houston 251
- Trees in the Desert / Sarah Messer 269
- Portrait of a Mother / Stephanie Andersen 289
- Water Children / Nina de Gramont 305
- Accidents: A Family History of Choice / Karen E. Bender 323
- The Raw Edges of Human Existence: The Language of Roe v. Wade / Francine Prose 337
- Contributor's Biographies 345.
- ISBN:
- 9781596920637
- 1596920637
- 9781596920620
- 1596920629
- OCLC:
- 124539039
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